Living Online: The WordPress Resume
Christopher Spencer
Web Communications Specialist
University of Arkansas
Twitter: cspencer75E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
What are our goals?
• Why WordPress Rocks
• What the U of A can do for you?
• Building a Blog/Portfolio/Resume/Repository to get you noticed
Who the $#%$ are you?
Christopher Spencer: Born in El Dorado, lives in Fayetteville
• Web Guy: Hired in October as a web communications specialist at the University of Arkansas.
• Journalist: Worked for the El Dorado News Times, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
• Publisher: Publisher of Ozarks Unbound (June 2009), The Food File.com (April 2010) and Ballotbucks.org (April 2010)
• Creative: President of Creative Economy Action Group Inc., a Fayetteville nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the city’s creative economy.
• WordPress Fanboy: Founder of WordCamp Fayetteville now in it’s third year in Fayetteville.
• Former SPJ communications director from 2009 - 2011
What is WordPress?
• WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and pricelessat the same time.
• WordPress is used by over 14% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites.
• Five-minute installation
What are people using?
Year: 2011
Breakdown of websites with a clearly identifiable CMS, according to W3Tech’s survey of the top 1 million domains.
What blogs are used?
Year: 2009
Who is using WordPress?
• WordPress is used nationally by CNN, the U.S. Government, The New York Times, People Magazine,
• Locally: Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, Ozarks Unbound, the Washington County Observer, the Fayetteville Flyer, Single Parent Scholarship Fund and numerous other businesses to manage their websites.
Examples of WordPress
U of A and WP
• Wordpress installation at http://wordpress.uark.edu
• Any student, staff or faculty can
register a site there by signing in with
university credentials.
What you will see?
What you will see?
What you could see?
or …
How to create an online resume:
• Research existing resumes you like
• Distill the elements you want to provide: Simple, comprehensive, flashy.
• Find plugins and themes that get you there
• Make printables an option, but not the focus
University WordPress Space
• Go to the Tutorials page – Find online resources
• Currently more than 70 themes to choose from – apply to get a new theme applied
• At least 86 plugins to choose from that expand functionality
Groovy Plugin: WP Resume
Some starting plugins
• Jetpack to start – provides Sharing, Spell check, E-mail subscriptions, Stats, Shortlinks, Shortcodes, Sidebars (RSS, Twitter, Blog subscribe)
• Akismet, WP Tables Reloaded, All in One SEO Pack, Contact Form 7, NextGen Gallery, Wp Touch
Some starting plugins
• Jetpack to start – provides Sharing, Spell check, E-mail subscriptions, Stats, Shortlinks, Shortcodes, Sidebars (RSS, Twitter, Blog subscribe)
• Akismet, Wp Tables Reloaded, All in One SEO Pack, Contact Form 7, NextGen Gallery, Wp Touch
After Effects
• Space is always a concern. First bump is free.
• Try Amazon’s S3 – Simple Storage Service (12 cents/gigabyte)
• Portable data that travels with you as your career develops
• Reserve a url now – have your WP site changed to it
Use me
Christopher Spencer in Davis Hall
Phone: 575-4671
email: [email protected]
Twitter: cspencer75
Addendum: WordCamp Fayetteville
July 27 – 29, 2012
WordCamp Fayetteville
• The purpose of WordCamp Fayetteville is to teach people – including small businesses, nonprofits, educators and journalists – about the free open source WordPress software and other Internet-based innovation.
• Year One = 100 people at the Town Center
• Year Two = 200 people at the Reynolds Center
What is WordCamp?
• Friday: WordPress 101 at The Iceberg and a meet/tweet up afterward.
• Saturday: Full conference at the Reynolds Center. Four tracks of speakers. Almost 30 sessions.
• Saturday night: After Party at The Iceberg
• Sunday: WordPress Wizards at Belford Group offices
Why WordCamp?
$30 buys everything
T-shirt, conference access, After Party , WordPress Wizards wp-fu, Saturday snack and lunch, swag
bag
The Deal
• Use “wcfay12-student” when registering at http://wordcampfayetteville.com to get a $10 discount. First 10 folks.
• Tickets go on sale on or around April 15. Tweet me and I’ll notify you.